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379
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Overview

Bin Kan is a researcher affiliated with Nankai University in China, specializing in fields related to Engineering and Materials Science. Their work predominantly focuses on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Materials Chemistry. The research extends into scientific subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The primary research topics covered in their publications include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, Thin-Film Transistor Technologies, and Organic and Molecular Conductors Research.

Bin Kan's recent published papers feature the following:

  • "Low-Bandgap Porphyrins for Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells: Materials, Morphology, and Applications" (2020, Advanced Materials)
  • "Central Unit Fluorination of Non-Fullerene Acceptors Enables Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Over 18% Efficiency" (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "Recent progress on all-small molecule organic solar cells using small-molecule nonfullerene acceptors" (2020, InfoMat)
  • "A rare case of brominated small molecule acceptors for high-efficiency organic solar cells" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "3D acceptors with multiple A-D-A architectures for highly efficient organic solar cells" (2023, Energy & Environmental Science)

Frequent co-authors in Bin Kan's collaborative research include Yongsheng Chen, Xiangjian Wan, Zhaoyang Yao, Guankui Long, and Wanying Feng.

Bin Kan's work has been published in several notable scientific venues, with frequent contributions appearing in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, and Science China Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • A series of simple oligomer-like small molecules based on oligothiophenes for solution-processed solar cells with high efficiency.

    Bin Kan;Miaomiao Li;Qian Zhang;Feng Liu

  • Small-molecule solar cells with efficiency over 9%

    Qian Zhang;Bin Kan;Feng Liu;Guankui Long

  • Solution-processed and high-performance organic solar cells using small molecules with a benzodithiophene unit.

    Jiaoyan Zhou;Yi Zuo;Xiangjian Wan;Guankui Long

  • Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells Based on Dialkylthiol-Substituted Benzodithiophene Unit with Efficiency near 10%

    Bin Kan;Qian Zhang;Miaomiao Li;Xiangjian Wan

  • Solution-processed organic tandem solar cells with power conversion efficiencies >12%

    Miaomiao Li;Ke Gao;Xiangjian Wan;Qian Zhang

  • Small-Molecule Acceptor Based on the Heptacyclic Benzodi(cyclopentadithiophene) Unit for Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

    Bin Kan;Huanran Feng;Xiangjian Wan;Feng Liu

  • Two-Dimensional Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite with Nanorod-like Morphology for Solar Cells with Efficiency Exceeding 15%

    Hongtao Lai;Bin Kan;Tingting Liu;Nan Zheng

  • A New Nonfullerene Electron Acceptor with a Ladder Type Backbone for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

    Nailiang Qiu;Huijing Zhang;Xiangjian Wan;Chenxi Li

  • Over 12% Efficiency Nonfullerene All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells with Sequentially Evolved Multilength Scale Morphologies

    Ke Gao;Sae Byeok Jo;Xueliang Shi;Li Nian

  • Nonfullerene Tandem Organic Solar Cells with High Performance of 14.11.

    Yamin Zhang;Bin Kan;Yanna Sun;Yanbo Wang

  • Fine-Tuning the Energy Levels of a Nonfullerene Small-Molecule Acceptor to Achieve a High Short-Circuit Current and a Power Conversion Efficiency over 12% in Organic Solar Cells.

    Bin Kan;Jiangbin Zhang;Jiangbin Zhang;Feng Liu;Xiangjian Wan

  • A chlorinated low-bandgap small-molecule acceptor for organic solar cells with 14.1% efficiency and low energy loss

    Bin Kan;Huanran Feng;Huifeng Yao;Meijia Chang

  • Central Unit Fluorination of Non-Fullerene Acceptor Enables Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Over 18% Efficiency.

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  • An A-D-A Type Small-Molecule Electron Acceptor with End-Extended Conjugation for High Performance Organic Solar Cells

    Huanran Feng;Nailiang Qiu;Xian Wang;Yunchuang Wang

  • Low-Bandgap Porphyrins for Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells: Materials, Morphology, and Applications

    Ke Gao;Ke Gao;Yuanyuan Kan;Xuebin Chen;Feng Liu

  • Subtle Balance Between Length Scale of Phase Separation and Domain Purification in Small‐Molecule Bulk‐Heterojunction Blends under Solvent Vapor Treatment

    Miaomiao Li;Feng Liu;Xiangjian Wan;Wang Ni

  • A Halogenation Strategy for over 12% Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

    Yanbo Wang;Yamin Zhang;Nailiang Qiu;Huanran Feng

  • A rare case of brominated small molecule acceptors for high-efficiency organic solar cells

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  • Recent progress on all-small molecule organic solar cells using small-molecule nonfullerene acceptors

    Bin Kan;Yuanyuan Kan;Lijian Zuo;Xueliang Shi

  • Graphene quantum dots as the hole transport layer material for high-performance organic solar cells.

    Miaomiao Li;Wang Ni;Bin Kan;Xiangjian Wan

  • Evaluation of Electron Donor Materials for Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells via a Novel Figure of Merit

    Jie Min;Jie Min;Yuriy N. Luponosov;Chaohua Cui;Bin Kan

  • Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene (BDT)-based small molecules for solution processed organic solar cells

    Miaomiao Li;Wang Ni;Xiangjian Wan;Qian Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yongsheng Chen
Yongsheng Chen Nankai University
Xiangjian Wan
Xiangjian Wan Nankai University
Feng Liu
Feng Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chenxi Li
Chenxi Li Nankai University
Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Guankui Long
Guankui Long Nankai University
Yong Cao
Yong Cao South China University of Technology
Richard H. Friend
Richard H. Friend University of Cambridge
Artem A. Bakulin
Artem A. Bakulin Imperial College London
Alex K.-Y. Jen
Alex K.-Y. Jen City University of Hong Kong

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